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Poverty, charity, and motherhood : maternal societies in nineteenth-century France
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ISBN: 1283028700 0252090012 9786613028709 9780252090011 9780252035470 025203547X 9781283028707 6613028703 Year: 2010 Publisher: Urbana, Ill. University of Illinois Press


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Female beauty systems
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ISBN: 1443881430 9781443881432 9781443878241 1443878243 Year: 2015 Publisher: Newcastle upon Tyne, UK

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Female beauty systems everywhere are complex, integrating markers of class, status, power, and sexuality to perform the fundamental function of sorting individuals into categories of "more" or "less" desirable. Heirs to the tradition of courtly love, modern western female beauty systems tend to share the norm of man as pursuer, woman as pursued, having developed around the trope of the madly-desiring poet or knight supplicating his aloof and lovely lady for her favor. The apparent longevity of the courtly love tradition raises the question of whether the way in which it structures male desire

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